[Galaxy S II General] CaspaTheGhost:
Oh joy, I have found a place for a post I tried to make a few days ago on a thread that was deleted as I was typing! I've made a few contextual changes due to the different thread...

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I'm in favour of the split dev forums...

As per the date under my avatar I joined around the time I got my Desire, but didnt really post much as I saw the site as a Developer site where Developers developed and alot of the talk was beyond my knowledge... I therefore used other sites more often than not but it was simply where the Developers work had eventually trickled down to...

As I'm waiting to get back on the Android bandwagon with an SGS2 I have been following the site directly so I know whats going on here and now... I have come to realise that this site is for users (note, I'm referring to USERS not DEVS) who have a certain level of intelligence, competence and above all COMMON SENSE!

I have learnt a great deal by simply reading, reading the first 5 or so posts of a thread in their entirety is a must but this seems to be too much like hard work for some... Personally, I dont want to be spoon fed, I have a real interest in all of this (was in telecommunications for 5 years back when it was all about moving from analogue to digital and before prepay ruined it all!) and feel that this site can help me broaden my knowledge... Those who wish to be spoon fed or are too lazy to read important and helpful posts that an OP has taken the time to write should join another Android site...

As pointed out many many times, this is a DEV site its called XDA-Developers, not XDA-Users! I can understand why the split has been implemented - hell, I could make some of the 'ROMS' available if I had the time to spare, I'm sure of it! So for me, I now know where I need to look for what I am after and I dont need to surf through three pages in order to get there...

I do find the retarded posts amusing, but as I am reading select threads in their entirety it really does annoy me that I have to waste my own precious time with them. I can only imagine what that feeling must be like for the person who created the thread and spent hours of their own time doing the actual development work!

I look at it this way... Would I not bother reading important emails from my clients fully and then ask questions that had been answered in those emails? Of course not, I'd have no clients, no business and I would be seen as mentally defficient, self-defeating buffoon...

Here, I'm the client, and you know what? My clients have a legal obligation to pay my invoices, here I dont have to pay a penny if I dont want to...

That was my original post, but to continue, I also notice than the vast majority of those that seem to be flogging this issue to death are USERS who have been members of the site for a decent amount of time, but whose post count is relatively low. What can one one deduce from this disparity between length of membership and post count? I'm sure all those with the three traits I mentioned above will be able to answer that question easily, but for those than cannot I will spell it out for you...

YOU CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO THIS DEVELOPMENT SITE.

The argument that without users the site will not generate revenue is based on the assumption that this site was created as an actual business. As has been explained before (like most things), the site was created as a place for like minded DEVELOPERS to be be able to share their work and ideas, and collaborate with other DEVELOPERS. Yes, there are hit counts and ads etc, but surely as a site grows, the costs grows (bandwidth anyone?!).

Before I get the usual responses, please be aware that I am not naive and therefore understand that its likely that the site is now a profit generator, I am simply saying that this is a by product of the sites success, and by success I mean all the attention it gets in the media due to the breakthroughs that are made by its DEVELOPERS.